I don't believe that contests necessarily have to be zero-sum. If there's adequate promotional opportunity for all participants (or at least those participants who have something of a quality entry) they can avoid being truly zero sum games.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [chrisbrogan.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Jeff Pulver > > Interesting points, Jan, and I appreciate your opinion. > Contests do have a way of picking a winner, which makes them > a "zero sum game," as Covey calls it. > > What do I value? Participation. I love community when it is positive. > (It's a personal flaw of mine that I don't do negative very > well. Yes, I know discourse is healthy. I am trying to learn > how to better manage > it.) > > To me, not as someone from Network2, but just me, > participation is what this means. Is it marketing for > Network2? Hell yes. But consider these two scenarios: > > 1.) Old way: pay people to pretend to be videobloggers. > > 2.) New way: ask videobloggers and producers to make it themselves. > > Recently, Robert Scoble took crap for making a video about > Intel. My very personal opinion is that I'd rather watch > Robert's interview than yet another ad showing a sterile room > with flashing neon graphics. > Robert asked questions, showed us things, got a voice. Participation. > > Yes, there's marketing. Yes, there's a competition. But in > another way, it's a chance for a couple hundred people to > show themselves, should they choose to do so. > > Another cool thing about the Internet over traditional broadcasting: > we want to show them all. > > Oh! Important: Steve Elbows mentioned something about > negative or parody ads. I think those are fine, too. Remember > the GM thing? Well, we're not selling a product. We're > selling an idea. You want to sh!t on the idea of watching > Internet TV? Cool. Have a blast! You want to sh!t on > Network2, that it's not [good/right/useful/pretty], that's > cool too. That's the best part of this two-way communication medium. > You can raise your voice. > > Will we FEATURE it? Maybe not. But we'll watch it for sure. > And you control the broadcast of it, so you can host it > wherever. So, if you want to post negative or parody, that's > okay, too. > > I value participation. That's what was behind PodCamp. That's > what's behind the projects I spend my time on. That's where I > go when I'm not with my family (meetups and the like). > > Hope that helps answer your question. > > --Chris Brogan... > Community Developer > Network2.tv > > --- In [email protected], "Jan McLaughlin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What do you value? > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
